This time-lapse video of an oil-painting being created by Pablo Picasso is brief, but captivating. The clip is a scene taken from the 1955 French documentary "The Mystery of Picasso," in which director Henri-Georges Clouzot filmed the artist painting 20 different pieces. Bizarrely enough, almost all the art created for the film had to be destroyed upon close of production due to contractual obligation. More here

Emporer Norton Award- for creating a persona, with the charactaristics of a culturo-vortical entity....Dali did this...Oprah, the Fat/Skinny, did this, Bruce Lee even printed his own money for a while....Picasso, could write a check, and no one would deposit them, because the value of his signature, was greater than the goods or services...Cult of Personality, is your best hope, for getting that catbird seat, of legend, and trappings, in yer own time.....
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This 3D animation by Marcelo Ricardo Ortiz is set to Duran Duran's song The Chauffer and pays homage to Pablo Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica," Van Gogh's "Bedroom In Arles" paintings, Salvador Dali's "La Persistance de la Mémoire" and Escher's "Relativity."

Lyrics from Romanian to English:

Miya-hee, Miya-hoo, Miya-ho, Miya-haha <x4>

Male:
Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it’s me, an outlaw,
I ask you, my love, to accept happiness.

Female:
Hello, hello, it’s me, Picasso,
I sent you a beep [cellphone signal], and I’m brave [or strong], But you should know that I’m not asking for anything from you.

You want to leave but you don’t want don’t want to take me, don’t want don’t want to take me, don’t want don’t want don’t want to take me.

Your face and the love from the linden trees,
And I remember your eyes.
<x2>
Male:
I call you [over the phone], to tell you what I feel right now, Hello, my love, it’s me, your happiness.

Female:
Hello, hello, it’s me again, Picasso,
I sent you a beep [cellphone signal] and I’m brave [or strong], But you should know that I’m not asking for anything from you.

You want to leave but you don’t want don’t want to take me, don’t want don’t want to take me, don’t want don’t want don’t want to take me. Your face and the love from the linden trees,
And I remember your eyes.

Miya-hee
Miya-hoo
Miya-ho
Miya-haha

You want to leave but you don’t want don’t want to take me, don’t want don’t want to take me, don’t want don’t want don’t want to take me. Your face and the love from the linden trees,
And I remember your eyes.

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/Good artists borrow, great artists steal- Pablo Picasso